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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

An ancient Egyptian
handbook of ritual power, discovered in1981 has been recently translated containing
love spells, spells to exorcise evil spirits as well as other spells to treat
medical conditions. This 20 page book written in Copic, an Egyptian language,
was written on parchment and is over 1,300 years old.

Malcolm Choat and
Iain Gardner, professors at Macquarie University and the University of Sydney
stated in an article taken from the Washington Post, that this ancient book
“starts with a lengthy series of invocations that culminate with drawings and
words of power, followed by a number of prescriptions or spells to cure
possession by spirits and various ailments, or to bring success in love and
business.”

It is believed that
the codex may date as early as the 7th or 8th century.